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Newly Diagnosed Hep B
I am a 40y/o F. I have always felt healthy and hadn't hada physical in almost 20 years. I decided this past summer to get a full work up done since I was turning 40. I almost thought that the Dr. was going to tell me I had diabetes because of my sugar intake. When she dropped the Hep B bomb on me I went numb. This happened last Thursday and I have been sobbing ever since. I had only 4 partners in the 25 years I have been sexually active (I know it only takes 1x). 2 in high school, my late husband for 12 years and my current fiance for 10. I did have a blood transfusion in 1986. I have been on the internet since thursday reading articles until my eyes hurt. Part of me feels like curling up into the fetal position and dying, part of me just wants to scream. I am so angry. My Gastro dr. is so sweet but so casual about this whole thing, I am freaking out. My fiance is trying to be understanding but I can see he is already withdrawing physically. He hasn't been tested yet. Now I am waiting for the second set of tests to come to see exactly where i am at. Also appointments for the ultrasounds and stuff. I am finding it hard to concentrate on everyday tasks and work. I am sobbing as I write this. I am sorry so long. I think I just need some moral support. I feel alone and dirty somehow. How do you all cope with this. Physically I feel fine. Mentally i am crushed.
Did you husband end up getting the virus? I am in the process of finding out if my partner has it?
Hm... that would be Hepatitis B...not Hepatits. Although....considering I'm a woman and I have HCV.. I guess you could say that I have Hepatits.
I'm sorry. That off the wall sense of humour I'm cursed with. I couldn't resist. :(
I'm sorry. That off the wall sense of humour I'm cursed with. I couldn't resist. :(
Lisa,
You don't say if your doctor identified what strain of Hepatitis B you have. Did she say if you were Acute, a carrier or Chronic?
If she didn't identify it, perhaps she isn't aware of the distinction. My doctor wasn't and frankly, not all family doctors are specialists in this stuff. I don't want to give you false hope here. I just want you to be SURE of what you have.
In my case, I had acute Hepatitis B. It means the antibodies remain in my blood, however I developed a natural immunity to it and I'm non-infectious. For Hepatits B, that is. The determinate is the properties of the antibodies you have.
HOWEVER. I've been given such confusing information over the years that, because of a specific incident, I asked my doctor about a year ago if he could tell me with absolute certainty that I have Acute Hepatitis B and he could not, so I asked him to test me to find out and he agreed. In the meantime, I was doing research of my own to understand it. I sent an email to the Hepatitis Foundation in the U.S. for information and as good luck would have it, very complete information describing what antibodies pertain to what kind of Hepatitis B arrived in the mail before the results of the blood test came. My doctor proceeded to tell me that I do indeed have Chronic Hepatitis B. Which is NOT what I had been told I had before...and I protested and brought out my information and had to SHOW him that the properties of my antibodies indicated that I have Acute Hepatitis B and the Health Unit backed up that diagnosis as they get copies of such things.. or they would have been on my butt and had me register with them and, and, and from there.
As it turns out.. this is how I found out that I have HCV, he added that test into the mix and I got alot more than I bargained for...good news and bad news but...VERY LUCKY that I found out earlier than later as it's bad enough already and would only have gotten worse and I would have had no idea at all as it progressed. Sidebar...and back to YOUR situation.
What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that if I didn't come armed with that bit of information from the Hepatitis Foundation, my family doctor would have sent me reeling from his office thinking I have Chronic Hepatitis B. Unfortunately there is alot of misunderstanding even in the medical profession.
I sincerely hope you have Acute Hepatitis. FIND OUT. And then you will know what you're dealing with. Here is a link to add to your reading. I found that it explains it rather well and I hope it helps.
http://www.gicare.com/pated/ecdlv41.htm
Here's hoping.... keep us posted.
Trish
You don't say if your doctor identified what strain of Hepatitis B you have. Did she say if you were Acute, a carrier or Chronic?
If she didn't identify it, perhaps she isn't aware of the distinction. My doctor wasn't and frankly, not all family doctors are specialists in this stuff. I don't want to give you false hope here. I just want you to be SURE of what you have.
In my case, I had acute Hepatitis B. It means the antibodies remain in my blood, however I developed a natural immunity to it and I'm non-infectious. For Hepatits B, that is. The determinate is the properties of the antibodies you have.
HOWEVER. I've been given such confusing information over the years that, because of a specific incident, I asked my doctor about a year ago if he could tell me with absolute certainty that I have Acute Hepatitis B and he could not, so I asked him to test me to find out and he agreed. In the meantime, I was doing research of my own to understand it. I sent an email to the Hepatitis Foundation in the U.S. for information and as good luck would have it, very complete information describing what antibodies pertain to what kind of Hepatitis B arrived in the mail before the results of the blood test came. My doctor proceeded to tell me that I do indeed have Chronic Hepatitis B. Which is NOT what I had been told I had before...and I protested and brought out my information and had to SHOW him that the properties of my antibodies indicated that I have Acute Hepatitis B and the Health Unit backed up that diagnosis as they get copies of such things.. or they would have been on my butt and had me register with them and, and, and from there.
As it turns out.. this is how I found out that I have HCV, he added that test into the mix and I got alot more than I bargained for...good news and bad news but...VERY LUCKY that I found out earlier than later as it's bad enough already and would only have gotten worse and I would have had no idea at all as it progressed. Sidebar...and back to YOUR situation.
What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that if I didn't come armed with that bit of information from the Hepatitis Foundation, my family doctor would have sent me reeling from his office thinking I have Chronic Hepatitis B. Unfortunately there is alot of misunderstanding even in the medical profession.
I sincerely hope you have Acute Hepatitis. FIND OUT. And then you will know what you're dealing with. Here is a link to add to your reading. I found that it explains it rather well and I hope it helps.
http://www.gicare.com/pated/ecdlv41.htm
Here's hoping.... keep us posted.
Trish
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